* Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-14 17:48:15 +0800]:
> Hi All,
>
> I have no idea how else to put the subject. It's weird behaviour.
>
> I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it
> into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding.
> (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus"
>
> $find . -iname gentoo -print
> ./Gentoo
>
> $find . -iname *gentoo* -print
> ./Email Servers/Setting up Mail under Gentoo.pdf
> ./Gentoo
> ./Gentoo/gentoolkit.pdf
> ./Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy.pdf
> ./Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf
> ./openMosix Cluster on Gentoo.pdf
> ./Gentoo chroot.pdf
>
> Note : I want to move "gentoo chroot" "openmosix" into the Gentoo/
> folder
>
> $ls --quoting-style=shell-always | grep -i gentoo.*pdf >pop && mv `cat
> pop` Gentoo/
> mv: cannot stat `\'Cyrus': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `Imapd-Gentoo.pdf\'': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `\'Gentoo': No such file or directory
>
> $cat pop
> 'Cyrus Imapd-Gentoo.pdf'
> 'Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy.pdf'
> 'Gentoo chroot.pdf'
>
> Why Can't I move them into the Gentoo Folder?? based on the output of
> "cat pop" it seems like they are formatted properly. (newlines etc)
>
>
> I also tried
> $for i in `ls --quoting-style=shell | grep -i gentoo.*pdf`; do (echo
> "$i"; cp "$i" /tmp/popo); done
> 'Cyrus
> cp: cannot stat `\'Cyrus': No such file or directory
> Imapd-Gentoo.pdf'
> cp: cannot stat `Imapd-Gentoo.pdf\'': No such file or directory
>
>
> Question :
> 1. How can this made to work??
> 2. Using find, is there any way to only restrict it to the current
> directory and not dive into any directories under the current one?
> (tried maxdepth but seems like it doesn't work. It'll list down _all_
> the files in that directory)
>
> $find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name *gentoo*
> ./fluxbook.pdf
> ./AWLP-Wireless AP Project-Installation.pdf
> ./HOWTO Fluxbox.pdf
>
> 3. note that my current user is named "gentoo"
> gentoo users Building Scalable ISPs with open-source softwares.pdf
> gentoo users Squirrelmail-SpeedWithUW-IMAP.pdf
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
> Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz
> 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
> Neuromancer 17:36:26 up 8:23, 7 users,
> load average: 0.65, 1.15, 0.95
>
>
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The problem is that you have to deal with the spaces in the names:
find . -iname "gentoo.*pdf" | while read i
do
mv "$i" Gentoo/
done
That should do the trick....
Regards,
Jan
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